Jane Erb wrote:

>Nice to have someone share my opinion of the so far highly overrated
>Lang Lang. The talent is indeed there, but he needs a lot of maturing.

One pianist who isn't overrated is Jean Dube.  He played the solo part
and Hans Graf conducted the Gothenburg SO in an outstanding performance
of Liszt's Totentanz last Thursday

Dube is only 22 years old and won the latest Liszt competition in
Utrecht. He displayed an unbelievable technical skill and loads of
muscal intelligence. It only remains for him to develop the more lyrical
side of his piano playing. By all means, the calmer sections were not
bad at all, it was only that the rest of the performance was completely
outstanding. I'm stunned.....

Mikael Rasmusson